I got the computer fixed

[Alyx Vance]

Yuppers I got my mothers computer back up and running, it wasn't a dead PSU or anything, it was actually a badly seated stick of ram and some loose wire ribbons.

See I (sort of) knew what I was doing.


I made this to show the people who kept calling me an idiot for waiting it out and messing with it that I sort of knew what I was doing.

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[Narkro555]

How is the ram secured to the board?

[Alyx Vance]

How is the ram secured to the board?

Clip things, the standard ones that you click up and it attaches to the ran through those slots.

I guess one of them jarred a bit and came loose enough to finally give out.

I got this theory by:
My mom claimed problems with it freezing up then shutting down (freezing from the ram not being attached right) and then after a while it quit turning on all together so I took a look at it and got it to start up making the light diagnostics tell me that it was a ram issue.
Re-seating the ram and fixing loose wires then got it back up soon after letting it settle down for a few hours.

[Nickelob Ultra]

How is the ram secured to the board?

By simple plastic locks.  When the RAM is properly pushed into its socket, it will push in the plastic locks into the notches on the side of the RAM stick automatically in most modern motherboards, ensuring that RAM never becomes loose.  Likewise, when you push the plastic locks outwards to remove RAM it also pushes out the RAM stick (so it's best to hold it while you're removing RAM, following proper anti-static technique of course).

[Narkro555]

By simple plastic locks.  When the RAM is properly pushed into its socket, it will push in the plastic locks into the notches on the side of the RAM stick automatically in most modern motherboards, ensuring that RAM never becomes loose.  Likewise, when you push the plastic locks outwards to remove RAM it also pushes out the RAM stick (so it's best to hold it while you're removing RAM, following proper anti-static technique of course).

The computer I built had the exact same lock system. So this means they're all the same?

[Alyx Vance]

The computer I built had the exact same lock system. So this means they're all the same?

Actually yea.
I don't think there are different ways of locking in ram sticks really.

[Nickelob Ultra]

The computer I built had the exact same lock system. So this means they're all the same?

Probably.  I haven't seen every single motherboard in the universe though, so let's just assume 99%.